Bengaluru, Oct 3: Despite of a ban imposed by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board on Plaster of Paris (PoP) Ganesha idols, nearly 1.50 lakh such “banned gods” have been immersed in various lakes across Bengaluru city during recent Ganesh Chaturthi festival.

Officials of the KSPCB said that over one third of the Ganesha idols immersed in the city's lakes this time are PoP idols. Over 2.65 lakh mud idols of Ganesha also have been immersed in those lakes.

Earlier KSPCB Chairman Lakshman revealed that there were around 50,000 PoP idols in the market in different parts of Karnataka including 35,000 in Bengaluru alone this time. According to manufacturers, the idols sold in the market were old stock and they have sought permission to clear them this year.

The KSPCB has banned the use and immersion of PoP idols in water bodies. The action followed a notification issued by the National Green Tribunal in 2013. The NGT?had ordered pollution control boards to conduct a study on pollution caused due to immersion of PoP and coloured idols and ban them under Section 33 of The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution)?Act, 1974.

suresh - Thursday, 13 October 2016

@TRUE INDIAN, I don't know with what context you are giving explanations. But i will ask you some questions. Pls try to understand.1) WHY GOD WANTS HUMANS TO PRAY HIM ( he made animals, birds, & human beings) why god doesnt want prayers from animals

True indian - Thursday, 13 October 2016

Quran Ch 79:30 we have made the earth like an ostrich egg. Which is geospericalQuran 71:19 And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet(spread out). Quran 78:6 Have We not made the earth as a wide expense,

Suresh - Thursday, 13 October 2016

@True Indian, Ummar rao cannot be brahmin 100% sure. Anybody can pose as brahmin, A learned brahmin will never leave Hinduism, as he very well aware of its virtues. Only those who have done spiritually well in previous birth are promoted and gifted to be

suresh - Friday, 14 October 2016

@TRUE INDIAN, and prophet asked if we can see god on the day of resurrection, read the 3rd point, it says \ seeing god will be a favour..that is additional to paradise. only believer will see GOD, and non-believer will be deprived of seeing god. IF

TRUE INDIAN - Friday, 14 October 2016

then tell me what the believers are going to see, when you say... na tasya prathima asti... there is no image of god, if god is formless what are they going to see and how their joy of seeing god will be double

Suresh - Friday, 14 October 2016

@True Indian, There is one strange question awaiting for you, You just answer HAVE U SEEN GOD? Simple question I am asking you? is anywhere in book does god mentions how to see him when you are alive? Everything is promised after death, then I wonder why

Suresh - Saturday, 15 October 2016

@True Indian, 1) Idol is not god, Its just an asan or a seat offered to God. 2) A seat can be anything - a coconut, Water kalsh, A fruit, A rangoli drawn ( Mandala), A betelnut-pan leaf, 3) God is invoked by saying certain prayers, 4) He is invited and of

Suresh - Saturday, 15 October 2016

@ True Indian, There is no guarantee that you will see after death. Who knows. who has seen that. But I was asking about SEEING GOD WHEN ALIVE. And if you are really Interested in seeing God when alive, that's special. You check in your books on How to se

Suresh - Saturday, 15 October 2016

@ True Indian, Show me proof that Mosses seen God, show me proof that you will see god after death, show me proof that god really asked abrahm replaced sheep and u celebrate Bakrid since then. Show me proof that god disclosed instructions to your prophet.

True indian - Saturday, 15 October 2016

Quran 7:143Allah says when Musa (Moses) came at the time and place appointed by Us, and Allah spoke to him, he said: \O my Lord! Show me (Yourself), that I may look upon You.\" Allah said: \"You cannot see Me, but look upon the mountain if it stands still in its place then you shall see Me.\" So when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He made it collapse to dust, and Musa (Moses) fell down unconscious. Then when he recovered his senses he said: \"Glory be to You, I turn to You in repentance and I am the first of the believers.\"

Replaced sheepQuran 37-100 to 109God put Abraham to a most difficult trial, the details of which are described in the Quran. “O my Lord! Grant me (Abraham) a righteous (son)!” So We gave him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and forbear. “Then, when the (the son) reached the age of serious work with him, he said: “O my son I see in a vision that I offer you in sacrifice: Now say what is your view!” (The son) said: “O My father! Do as you are commanded: You will find me if God so wills, one practising patience and constancy!” So when they had both submitted their wills (to God), and he had made him prostrate on his face (for sacrifice), We called out to him: “O Abraham! You have already fulfilled the vision!” Thus indeed do we reward those who do right. “For this was obviously a trial and We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice: and We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times: Peace and salutation to Abraham! (37:100-109).

This is the origin of the Islamic precept of sacrifice in fulfilment of God’s command provided in the Quran: “... to your Lord turn in prayer and sacrifice.” (108:2).

The aim of sacrifice, like all other fundamentals of Islam, is to imbibe piety and self righteousness. It also promotes the spirit of sacrifice for a right cause. To explain its purpose, God says in the Quran. “It is not their meat, nor their blood, that reaches God, It is their piety that reaches God”: (22:37)"

True indian - Saturday, 15 October 2016

In the Quran, God addresses Prophet Muhammad “You never recited any Scripture before We revealed this one to you; you never wrote one down with your hand” (29:48). , Prophet Muhammad who was known to be illiterate, neither read any previous scriptures nor wrote the Quran.

This is a blessed Book which We sent down to you [Muhammad], for people to ponder over its message, and for those with understanding to be reminded. (Quran, 38:29)